Reviews for Lightning to SD Card Camera Reader

Ok so, all I see here is that it won't work with 64 gig cards blah blah blah. Seems to me you are the ones who did not do your research before you bought it. I read everything I can about almost everything I buy and i ask questions too. So I bought it knowing what it will and will not work with. No it does not work with your iphone so all you need to do is use the icloud, simple. this has done everything I need it to do and I bought it because I researched it and knew what it is for going in. Oh ya, some have said they cant use cloud because of no wifi, well I fixed that as well, just use your phone as a hot spot and your done BAM!

Bought this adaptor hoping to download pictures from my D7100 camera. Yet found that it cannot read SDXC card beyond 32GB.....really becomes a white elephant...nice to see, poor to use

I'm becoming annoyed at apple's habit of glossing over these accessory capabilities, as well as their assumptions about my wifi access. You can transfer pics TO an ipad, but not off. You must use icloud or dropbox to transfer photos, which seems easy, IF you have wifi, which is not the case at my work or school! To print a single image, I have to plug the ipad into a computer, download the files, then transfer them to the sd card for use elsewhere. All this because they don't even give you an option to transfer ANYTHING off without wifi or a computer, which kinda defeats the purpose of having an ipad. Beware.

On my initial attempt to use the card reader it did not work. I had a SD Card that had never been used in a digital camera, but when I used the SD Card that was associated with my camera it work as stated. The SD Card has to be formatted with a digital camera for the item to work.

I have an Olympus Camera and this reader doesn't take the card.
It does not FIT.
it's an xD-Picture card M+ 2GB

Bought this to edit/browse photos from my two SanDisk 128 GB Class 10 SD cards...find out it doesn't work with anything better than a 32 GB card. Haven't tried a cassette tape on it yet.

Really, Apple? Really?

Two things need to be fixed: it needs to read newer cards, and enough with the "has to be formatted like a camera photo" bs. Give us what is most useful, not what is most profitable, or I swear my next tablet will not be an ipad...

If the SD card does not have a simple file structure of 'DCIM/CANOM100' or such, it fails to find anything, so it just gives up. If the software had been written by someone with half competency, it would display the file structure on the disc and give you a choice of where to go to find the files. It would not find the moves on my SD card produced by a Sony video camera because the directory structure was not the simple type. Yet another example of Apples view that you 'don't need to know the workings, we will protect you from them' Poor product Apple, wake up!! You got one star because I was not allowed to give you none.

If apple had stated that this does not work with 64 gig cards I never would have bought it! Completely pointless me having it now unless they have a magical update coming that will fix the issue.

Wanted to use it to transfer different videos off of my GoPro and naturally with it using quite a lot of data to record HD video I spent a bit more buying a 64gig card.

If it worked it would be a great (but very overpriced) item but now its just an overpriced piece of junk. Thanks Apple!

Reference Vanessa P on Nov 30 2012 before reading on.

It must be understood that this adapter was meant to read directly from a camera Those of you who are expecting this adapter to work as expandable storage best be prepared to work for it. That is, the reader will only read the photos AND videos IF they’re named and formatted correctly. Let me clarify further that all files MUST be in 8 digit alpha-numerics (e.g. XXXX1234). It doesn’t matter how it’s named as long as there are eight (8) characters. No special characters other than underscore ( _ ). Even then it can only be used as the 4th character (e.g. DSC_0001). Concerning formats, JPG and MP4 works perfectly. Haven’t tried h.264 yet. Again, it must…MUST be understood that this is a “camera card” reader, NOT external storage. And to confirm, No, you can not transfer from ipad to card; ONLY from card to ipad.

Read negative reviews and was doubtful of this SD card reader,
however this works perfectly! Does what it says, easy to use.